hello every body.i am new in this site?can u tell me plz how much weight lost in first 2 weeks?i banded 3rd sept i am on liquid diet. my hight is 5.6 and i was 97 kg. doctor did,nt give me pre diet.so to day i weighing my selef i lost 4 kg in 10 days.is it good r not?

It depends totally on if you think its good or not! That post op liquid diet is for healing, not loss. If you lose during it, all the better. You may gain a bit when you can "eat" before you get restriction, but that's normal too.

I had surgery 8 days ago and I have lost 21.4 lbs since being weighed the night after surgery. I did not have a pre-op diet. I have been on clear liquids since coming home.

I also did not have a preop diet. I lost 20 lbs in the first two weeks. I think most of that was probably fluid.

I actually GAINED weight in the hospital (water weight from the IV I think) and it took at least a week for that to go down. I think I lose a few pounds every four or five days... it pretty consistently will be the same for a number of days then I have a big drop.

It took almost two weeks to lose the 8 pounds I gained from the Water, then it dropped like crazy for about two weeks. I have been the same ALL week this week, then noticed this morning I dropped another 2 lbs! It's very erratic for me.

Over the last 4 weeks I have lost about 23 lbs. I think 12-15 of that was in the first two weeks (counting water.)

I lost 13 pounds on my all liquid diet. But I also work in a non-air conditioned warehouse, so Sweating was profuse. The day I came home after my surgery, I was up 5 pounds. But I figured that I had been on an IV for the last 26 hours, so I was probably retaining some water and the anesthia(?) probably wasn't helping anything. But within the week, it went away again. My total loss was 22 pounds. I feel I was really lucky, during my time prior to getting my fill, I only gained 1/2 pound back. Yesterday was a week since my first fill and I lost 3 pounds. It's hard to be optimistic about only 3 pounds, when your used to seeing the scale really move. But they say that 1-2 pounds a week is good. So I'm revamping my positive feelings, by telling myself that I have done a great job. It's not all going to come off over night and persistance will pay off.

Well Im 6"5 and started out at 350lbs lost 11lbs the fist week and 9 the last 3 weeks.

I would say you are right on track and dont stress about the fist month!!!

How many days do you have to stay in the hospital after lap band? First appt. with surgeon is Oct. 8, 2008, been approved by PCP.

wintobethin...how long in hospital depends on how fast you recover and your surgeon's requirements. Mine usually keeps people overnight but let me go home the same day, once I'd done a thin barium swallow and he knew everything was working right and going where it is supposed to.

wintobethin, I had surgery at 11 am and I was home by 430. Unless there are complications, my surgeon lets everyone go home the same day.

What caused your fatty liver that cancelled your 1st surgery? I'm on the 2 wk liquid diet now and have surgery scheduled for 9/26!

Skysmom I'm not sure since I didn't know I had it until I came to in recovery! However I've heard that the fatter you are, the more likely it is an issue, and people with a BMI of 50 or over (and I was WAY over, if you'll check my stats) are more at risk! However following an austere "atkins" type diet causes you to lose visceral fat first, so after 2 1/2 more weeks of preop, following my surgeon's diet 100% (instead of my own "modified" version) I lost another 17 pounds. That 32 pounds down did the trick for me.

When I went in for surgery on August 28/08 and I weighed about 268, now Im down to 245. I am still on a liquid diet and will be for about 3 more weeks.

No pre-surgery liquid diet for me because I wasn't supposed to get banded in the first place. I was scheduled for a gastric bypass but my surgeon discovered that I had too much scar tissue from a previous accident to do it, so we went with Plan B.

I was 365lbs in my pre-surgery weigh in. After 11 days on liquid only diet, I was 340lbs at the first follow up appointment and 334 today, after 4 days of tiny meals consisting of eggs, refried Beans, and Jello.

31 lbs in 15 days

I am being rebanded On Sept 16.

Anyway I found that it switched back in forth from losing lbs on the scale then when that stopped a few days I lost inches. Then back to dropping lbs a few days, then back to inches etc. It was really quite interesting.

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I was only on a liquid diet for 2 days before my surgery, but I was on a low carb diet for 6 days. I lost 12 lbs during that week.